Almost 90,000 people are urging studio bosses to avoid Hollywood whitewashing in the live action remake of Mulan (Picture: Disney)

Almost 90,000 people have signed a petition demanding that ‘whitewashing’ be avoided when casting the live remake of Disney’s Mulan.

Following in the footsteps of recent live remakes including The Jungle Book and Cinderella, Sony Pictures are reportedly developing a remake of animated classic, with plans to shoot in China with a ‘mostly Chinese’ cast, according to Variety.

Based on an old Chinese legend, the film follows the story of Mulan, a Chinese girl… Read the full story]]>

http://metro.co.uk/2016/09/12/nearly-90000-people-petition-against-whitewashing-in-the-live-action-version-of-mulan-6123213/feed/0Almost 90,000 people are urging studio bosses to avoid Hollywood whitewashing in the live action remake of Mulan (Picture: Disney)troynankervisAlmost 90,000 people are urging studio bosses to avoid Hollywood whitewashing in the live action remake of Mulan (Picture: Disney)Mulan is based on an old Chinese legend about a girl who poses as her father (Picture: Disney)The live action remake of Mulan will be reportedly filmed in China (Picture: Disney)Mulan will continue the trend of live action remakes like The Jungle Book (Picture: Walt Disney Pictures)Halle Berry’s dramatic reading of Britney Spears’ Oops I Did It Again is PERFECThttp://metro.co.uk/2016/08/23/halle-berrys-dramatic-reading-of-britney-spears-oops-i-did-it-again-is-perfect-6085658/
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Back in 2002, Halle Berry proved that she’s a damn fine actress when she became the first African American woman to win the Best Actress gong for her stunning turn in Monster’s Ball.

But she’s now proven it again through the unlikeliest of means – a dramatic reading of Oops I Did It Again.

The whole thing is brilliantly hilarious, as Halle transforms a bonafide pop classic into something that resembles an emotional monologue from a stirring emotional drama.

‘I played with your heart’, Halle cries with all the conviction of a cheating partner.

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The People V. O. J. Simpson leads the way in diverse Emmy nominations (Picture: FX Networks)

Following on from the #OscarsSoWhite fiasco – in which the Oscars couldn’t find a single non-white actor to nominate for the second year in a row – the Emmys are getting social media buzz for all the right reasons.

This is an increase from last year’s Emmys – where black women picked up three acting trophies, including Viola Davis becoming the first black… Read the full story]]>

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Is there really a problem with diversity at the Oscars if a dog can get nominated?

Back in 1985, at the 57th Academy Awards, Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes received a nomination in the Best Adapted screenplay category for Michael Austin and P.H. Vazak.

P.H. Vazak was a dog.

More specifically, he was the dog owned by Robert Towne who wrote the original draft of the Tarzan script but demanded his pet’s name be credited upon the film’s release.

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The 2016 Oscars might have finally seen Leonardo DiCaprio pick up a Best Actor gong, but it was overshadowed by the diversity issue in Hollywood.

Every single nominee in the Acting category was white which caused uproar from the ethnic community, call for a boycott of the annual awards ceremony as well as changed to the Academy membership to ensure better representation of non-white talent.

Academy president Cheryl Boone-Isaac promised to make changes to membership to ensure that it wasn’t dominated by white Hollywood – and veteran filmmakers who haven’t made a contribution in years – and it looks like she’s made good on it.

DiCaprio accepted the award in New York (Picture: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Oh the irony.

Leonardo DiCaprio has been criticised after he used a private jet to collect an environmental award last week.

It’s believed that that the Oscar-winning actor jetted to New York to collect an award at the Riverkeeper Fishermen’s Ball, before hopping back on the plane the following day to attend a Gala in Paris.

A rep for DiCaprio told US Weekly: ‘He was asked to speak at both Riverkeeper and amfAR events, but the only way to attend the two fundraisers was to hitch a ride with flights that were already planned.

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The former child star – who won in 1962 for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker – passed away in the early hours of Tuesday morning of sepsis from a ruptured intestine.

‘She was a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a friend, a mental health advocate and a cultural icon. She will be greatly missed,’ Patty’s rep Michael Stubbs said.

Her family also released a statement: ‘This morning, our beloved wife, mother, matriarch and the exquisite artist and champion of mental health, Anna Patty Duke, closed her eyes, quieted her pain and ascended to a beautiful place.’

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Award-winning costume designer Jenny Beavan has spoken out for the first time about that Vine from the Oscars that went viral.

Can cookies make your wildest dreams come true? Girl Scouts think so – and they’re using Leonardo DiCaprio as an example.

In America those crafty young girls set up shop across the United States every year to raise funds for their local units by shifting as many boxes of biscuits as possible.

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We usually expect them to be in just about every scene and be given the best lines. However, sometimes, whoever has been cast as support managed to end up putting in an outstanding performance. Even if they were cast as the slightly loveable best friend or the main antagonist, they take hold of the role, make it their own and totally push the main actor out of the spotlight.

Here are 11 supporting actors who totally stole the show:

Tommy Lee Jones – The Fugitive

It’s not easy to steal the spotlight away from Harrison Ford, but Tommy Lee Jones’s portrayal of Sam Gerrard really managed it. Gerrard takes a no-nonsense approach as he leads a team of FBI agents to track… Read the full story]]>

Lady Gaga has shown solidarity with the sexual assault survivors who joined her on stage at the Oscars by getting a matching tattoo.

The singer performed an emotional rendition of Oscar nominated song ‘Til It Happens to You at last Sunday’s ceremony, and was joined onstage by victims of sexual assault.

But it has now been revealed that Gaga has shown her support for fellow sexual assault victims by getting a new tattoo inked on her left shoulder.

The singer revealed the body art on Snapchat – and also retweeted a post which showed the same tattoo design on four different women.

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Oh, Leo. After all of these years of waiting for his well deserved Oscar, he almost lost it on the same night he finally got a hold of it.

Leonardo DiCaprio was so into his mingling, socialising and hugging in a bar that his trophy was the furthest thing from his mind. As he clambered into his car after waving through the paparazzi, he still seemed none the wiser that he wasn’t in possession of the heavy gong.

As the video from Vanity Branded shows, someone then brings out the Oscar, which had been seemingly been left in the bar, and hands it over, narrowly avoiding a bit of heartbreak for Leo when he arrived home and prepared to pop it on his shelf.

We’ve all left a coat or an earring in a bar but an Oscar!?

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This is one movie that probably wouldn’t get Leo that Oscar.

Lovers of the movie hashtags that regularly pop up on Twitter (what’s not to love about #replacethelastwordinamovietitlewiththewordminge?) might just have a new account to follow.

There are some famously awful Hollywood movies that have cropped up over the years (sorry but what was Showgirls?!), and Shit_pitches tweets are supposed to mock them with plots that are too gloriously banal and tragically terrible to be true.

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She sang the song at the Academy Awards to encourage other people to speak up about rape. She fell victim to an attack when she was aged just 19.

Sharing a photo of herself with her grandmother and aunt on Instagram, she admitted she had previously felt too ‘ashamed’ to tell relatives that she was a survivor but that they had… Read the full story]]>

The Revenant is the only Oscar-winning film Leonardo DiCaprio’s been in this year (Picture: REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni)

He might have picked up the best actor Oscar for The Revenant, but did you also know that Leonardo DiCaprio appears in best actress Oscar winner Room?

Well, he does indeed – making a blink-and-you’ll miss it cameo of sorts in the film that won star Brie Larson a gold statuette of her own.

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Sacha Baron Cohen flew in the face of the Academy by presenting an award dressed as Ali G.

The Academy had apparently requested that Cohen didn’t appear on stage at the Oscars in character – but he did it anyway.

Sacha confessed that he had a little bit of help from his wife Isla Fisher, who helped him change clothes at the last minute in a disabled toilet. In fact it was Fisher who had cheekily smuggled the costume into the event.

Roger Federer, the 17-time grand slam champion, pulled off one of his finest forehands to date with a Mexican inspired slam on the red carpet.

Attending the 88th Academy Awards on Sunday to witness Leonardo DiCaprio claim his first Oscar for his role in the Revenant, the Swiss proved he knows exactly how to get over a knee injury… a shot of tequila.

R-Fed, who went into surgery the day after his semi-final Australian defeat to Novak Djokovic, is still recovering from a torn meniscus which has seen him pull out of the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam and Dubai.

After being propositioned on the red carpet, the 34-year-old vowed to get back to the number one spot before necking the tequila and declaring ‘that was a strong one!’.

She might be a newly minted Oscar winner now, but there was a time when actress Brie Larson was also attempting to follow her musical dreams.

Because a decade ago, when the Room star was 16, she tried her hand at becoming a pop star – something which everybody’s remembered in the wake of her awards success.

She even got as far as releasing an album, Finally Out Of PE, which featured a whole load of Avril Lavigne-esque pop rock tracks including She Said (which you can see above), Whatever, Loser Like Me and the title track.

At the time, she cited Maroon 5, Kanye West, Gwen Stefani and The Clash as musical influences – and revealed in an interview with Kidz World that she wrote songs about ‘what I am actually going through in my real life’.

Uggie died last August aged 13 – but wasn’t mention at the Oscars In Memoriam (Picture: Getty Images)

When the Oscars featured its annual In Memoriam segment, some viewers couldn’t help noticing that a certain canine star had been overlooked.

Because while the touching tribute featured the likes of David Bowie, Alan Rickman, James Horner, Leonard Nimoy and all the luminaries who have sadly passed away in the past year there was no mention of Uggie, the dog from The Artist.

The talented Jack Russell, who was one of the main stars of the 2011 film – which went on to win best picture at the Oscars the following year, Read the full story]]>